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15 Comments

1. 

   DudeMac

   Friday, March 17, 2017 - 9:00 pm · Reply

   Outfit those Macs with AMD Ryzens under the hood 😎
   • 

     peterblood71

     Friday, March 17, 2017 - 9:55 pm · Reply

     But then you wonder if Apple would pass on the CPU savings to the customer or charge an Intel price for an AMD CPU.
     • 

       applecynic

       Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 9:21 am · Reply

       Why not, they charge an Intel price for an ARM.
       • 

         MacObserver

         Monday, March 20, 2017 - 11:54 pm · Reply

         Do you honestly believe that the many ARM chips necessary to replace a handful of CISC processing cores is cost effective for workstations? Apple would charge an ARM and a LEG. And lose the ability to directly run CISC software.

         Why do so many people think RISC is better than CISC? Do they even know what these acronyms stand for? It seems not.

         I have no doubt that the X86 Intel architecture will someday be superseded, but there is nothing Apple has that is going to do it any time soon. Nothing Cook offers shows that he wants to make great desktop macs anymore.
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           applecynic

           Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 8:38 am · Reply

           Nah… You’re thinking too deep.
           That was a dig at the iPad.
2. 

   greg

   Friday, March 17, 2017 - 9:21 pm · Reply

   Used Macs since the Lisa in ’82. Owned independent Apple Store. I can say after all this time, I’m close to going to Linux or Windows. Apples underpowered, crippled with soldered components preventing upgrades, all for the sake of increased turnover to new units and ‘thin is beautiful’.
3. 

   melgross

   Friday, March 17, 2017 - 10:09 pm · Reply

   And again, MDN is clueless. Most of my professional life was in commercial photography, video editing and publishing. Two reason why Apple basically cornered those markets. The OS was superior for these purposes. Two was that the hardware was also superior.

   But more recently, that’s been less true. What I’m getting is that we may never see another Mac Pro. I hope that isn’t true, but is looks as though it,may be. So,the only professional machines Apple will have in the Desktop area, which is very important to,these professional areas, is the 27″ iMac. Now, realistically, that’s not close to being ideal. But if that’s the only,option, it had better be a good one indeed. Right now, it’s a fair choice, but not a good one.

   As a result, many higher end pros are reluctantly moving to Windows. This is sad, but it’s true. The fact is that for photography they are ok. For publishing, they are meh, and for higher end video,editing, they’re terrible.

   If not new Mac Pro is in sight, I would be ok with a $5,000+ iMac with high end processors and a real high end board. Also, as the first iMacs were, these should be upgradable as well.

   But we really,need a pro machine with the ability of having at least 128GB RAM, top of the line GPUs run at full speed, with plenty of video,RAM. And a proper Xeon with the option of moving to 22 cores. Two Xeons would be even better. If a machine like that is close to $10,000, that fine too.
4. 

   Herself

   Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 12:29 am · Reply

   Any mass exodus of creative professionals from the Mac platform will not stymie Apple or divert their research interests. They don’t answer to anyone. In that, they are very like Alphabet/Google. True, the two business models differ but their giant footprints, and their godlike indifference to users’ mundane complaints make them equally unapproachable.

   Strangely, I find that comforting. A small company craves loyal customers and seduces them as best it can. An established company can afford to examine a larger landscape of possibilities, sustained in its adventures by a loyal base. A mega-giant will focus on far horizons, unruffled by squawking chickens in the barnyard who made the mistake of laying all their eggs in one basket.
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     GoeB

     Monday, March 20, 2017 - 3:58 am · Reply

     Well, this squawking creative professional is giving Apple the rest of 2017 to get Macs right. Ignore the pros Apple, and it will be adios …
5. 

   trondude

   Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 1:23 am · Reply

   Vapor ware. There will be no more Macs. Just iPhones.
6. 

   Spyintheskyuk

   Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 5:24 am · Reply

   AI must be more advanced than I thought if all these ‘devices’ are demanding the addition of AR/VR. Clearly it won’t be long before humans have little relevance whatsoever as consumers in this technological New World Order.
7. 

   MacRaven

   Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 10:03 am · Reply

   They need to go back to allowing us to add more RAM after purchase. That was a stupid move just to be thin. Often departments are on a budget at purchase time of the whole machine, and in 2 or 3 years add more RAM. Now you MUST buy it with RAM maxed out to insure you’ll always at the top of that particular computer’s abilities.
8. 

   larrymagoo

   Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 11:04 am · Reply

   C’mon fellas….We’ve got Apple Park….doesn’t that help with your computing needs???

   Richest Tech company in the world and they can’t seem to figure out how to walk and chew gum simultaneously!!
9. 

   toolazytotell

   Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 11:47 am · Reply

   Since this is just a rumor Apple is teetering at the “Too little too late” precipice
10. 

    Derek Currie

    Saturday, March 18, 2017 - 1:58 pm · Reply

    More powerful Macs. What an innovative idea. Kidding.

    At least this is an indicator that Apple is getting the clue that we Apple fanatics are NOT pleased with their laziness and carelessness regarding the Mac.